The Third Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications

AICT 2007

May 13-19, 2007 - Mauritius


Call for Papers

The spectrum of 21st Century telecommunications is marked by the arrival of new business models, new platforms, new architectures and new customer profiles. Next generation networks, IP multimedia systems, IPTV, and converging network and services are new telecommunications paradigms. Technology achievements in terms of co-existence of IPv4 and IPv6, multiple access technologies,  IP-MPLS network design driven methods, multicast and high speed require innovative approaches to design and develop large scale telecommunications networks.

Mobile and wireless communications add profit to large spectrum of technologies and services. We witness the evolution 2G, 2.5G, 3G and beyond, personal communications, cellular and ad hoc networks, as well as multimedia communications.

Web Services add a new dimension to telecommunications, where aspects of speed, security, trust, performance, resilience, and robustness are particularly salient. This requires new service delivery platforms, intelligent network theory, new telecommunications software tools, new communications protocols and standards.

AICT 2007 covers a variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from background fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc. Applications, services, system and network management issues will also receive significant attention.

We solicit research and industrial contributions. AICT 2007 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, and panel sessions. The AICT 2007 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and posted on IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to)

AICT 2007: Telecommunications

Information theory and coding theory
Communication theory, signal processing, modulation
Optical communications
Designing and management of optical networks
Optical photonic technologies
Networking theory, protocols, and technologies on next generation networking
Broadband communications and networks
Programmable networks, active networks and mobile agents, protocol & standards
Performance and QoS, Traffic engineering (MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ, etc.)
Telecommunication/Network management and services
Broadband access network and service
Network planning and optimization
Real-time traffic and QoS
3G and 4G mobile communication services
Wireless communications antennas & propagation & transmission technologies
Evolution from 2G to 2.5G, 3G and beyond
Personal communications
Wireless multimedia & networks & systems
Cellular and ad hoc networks
Metro/Access networks
Wireless access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL)
Standardization (IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16)
Web services communications, applications, and performance
Security and trust in Web Services applications
Platforms for Web Services based applications and services
Communication software and intelligent network theory
Object and component technologies in telecommunication software
Telecommunication protocol engineering and telecommunication software tools
Standardization (IEEE 802.17, Policy Models, etc.)
SOHO (Small Offices/Home Offices)

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The AICT 2007 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important dates:

Submission deadline December 1, 2006 December 12, 2006
Notification January 15, 2007 January 19, 2007
Registration and Camera ready February 5, 2007 February 8, 2007

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitAICT07.html

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to [email protected]. 

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to [email protected] 

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. 

For more information, [email protected]

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to [email protected] .

 
 

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